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[soupshark]

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Had. Got rid of him after 2017. I don't remember how (maybe tailgate committee?), but I met some human med people from main campus and he was terrible to them too. Can't remember specifics any more, but it sounds like they got rid of him because of the new human med school they opened through Chambana. So I got him twice (!), but I'm pretty sure @SkiOtter and their class didn't get him.

Yea Dr. Sprandel teaches most of renal now and he's king

 

[soupshark]

I do not wish to go back to those times of my life. I almost failed out. No computers allowed, and didn’t allow recording. I think people may have had to get accessability services involved to get him to record for people with hearing loss? That was well after my time. He was a native English speaker but had a strong accent. Used overhead transparencies while drawing on the board facing away. Would call people out for talking or sleeping. Would also just pick random people to ask us questions. Horrible testing procedures out to trick you…madlibs style fill in the blanks where the whole paragraph is the entire pathophys, and also once we had a true false section that was mark all that are true (or false I can’t remember which) and the mindf*ck was that you didn’t actually need to mark ANY. But who doesn’t mark anything as being true an entire 15 question t/f section. There’s a reason classes suddenly started losing 10%+ of their students every year. I’m told outside of class and in electives he was very nice, but I did not interact beyond the requirements.

Yeah that would end me. Especially the actually none of these options are correct thing.

 

[pp9]

I do not wish to go back to those times of my life. I almost failed out. No computers allowed, and didn’t allow recording. I think people may have had to get accessability services involved to get him to record for people with hearing loss? That was well after my time. He was a native English speaker but had a strong accent. Used overhead transparencies while drawing on the board facing away. Would call people out for talking or sleeping. Would also just pick random people to ask us questions. Horrible testing procedures out to trick you…madlibs style fill in the blanks where the whole paragraph is the entire pathophys, and also once we had a true false section that was mark all that are true (or false I can’t remember which) and the mindf*ck was that you didn’t actually need to mark ANY. But who doesn’t mark anything as being true an entire 15 question t/f section. There’s a reason classes suddenly started losing 10%+ of their students every year. I’m told outside of class and in electives he was very nice, but I did not interact beyond the requirements.

The intention trickery is BS. We definitely had a lot of BS questions on our exams over the years but half the time it was because our instructors couldn't write exam questions for the life of them, nor did they actually pay attention to what they did or did not cover.

Ours was just a raging a**hole who didn't teach much of anything, and then asked excessively difficult/niche questions on the exams that he absolutely didn't cover in lecture/weren't covered in readings. And then when like 10% of the class got it right by sheer luck, he would remind us that his med students all got it right because they are real doctors and all. He taught so little that I honestly couldn't tell you a single thing we covered in those lectures. Like I'd have to relearn it from scratch today. I don't remember a ton from vet school but I remember enough to be certain if we did or did not cover it appropriately and renal phys was essentially an untaught subject at UofI for at least several years. That and we did not have appropriate pharm/meds lectures for a bit. And my class did not cover the liver by accident. Good times.

 

[SkiOtter]

Yea Dr. Sprandel teaches most of renal now and he's king

I feel like we probably had Sprandy and I think Davila?